American Reacts to When People Catch "American Tourists in the Wild"

[@tonycasey3183]

I will never not repeat this experience. American tourists straight off of a cruise ship in Barcelona, Spain, complaining because all the locals were "speaking Mexican"

[@Dreyno]

😂

[@Owen7070]

They never cease to amaze... 🤦🏼‍♂😅

[@DonidorBackup]

​@@Owen7070To true, the mexicans are everywhere...

[@JustBlazer666]

😂😂🫣🫣🫣🫣

[@patriziamares6757]

@tonycasey3183 what did you expect ? They're so ignorant and oblivious of everything that's not America 😊

[@frankiefitzy8960]

I speak Gaelic(Irish) in our local pub I was told not to speak Russian and they complained to to the owner of the bar who responded in Gaelic

[@petertakacs3180]

actually, to me, gaelic does sound like russian, with an arabic throat accent,, sorry :D

[@ruthgiles8926]

The clue is in the location.​@@petertakacs3180

[@MolloyPolloy]

Doesn't matter though. It's the height of ignorance.

[@annafrolova7891]

Ok, if you even really spoke Russian, was it illegal or something? What is the reason to complain?

[@peterfromgw4615]

What a pisser of a story!!!!! I love it!!!! Grüße aus Australien. Tschüss.

[@davidflack6430]

I was in Pompeii walking down a 2000 year old Roman cobbled street when some American tourists behind me said 'You would think they could do something about the sidewalks.

[@A13_Mk1]

Thats like saying "why dont they replace the stones in stonehenge? They seem pretty old" there is no way they were serious 😭

[@ruggerorossi551]

As italian , I pray they were not serious 😂😮

[@herrakaarme]

@@ruggerorossi551 You just need to make sure the Pompeii site won't ever be sold to Elon Musk.

[@rytterl]

Norwegian here, I work in retail, and I can not tell you how many times angry American cruise tourists have yelled at me for not accepting dollars as payment. They just refuse to understand that it is completely and totally useless to me. And funny enough, I have seen other Europeans and some Asians saying the exact same thing in other comment sections here in KZbin, and on reddit.

[@tricitymorte1]

The amount of times I read that Americans, who have taken the time to plan a trip to another country, but know absolutely nothing about their destination is astounding. I've only left the US once. I went to Canada for a concert. But I would be mortified to go to another country and not understand how to at least get by in basic interactions. But then, I also tend to avoid tourist cruises, so maybe there's a connection. Sorry about the willful ignorance, and I hope they're at least not rude.

[@RaduRadonys]

Why do you say US dollars are useless to you? I mean ok, that is not your currency, but US dollars can be exchanged pretty everywhere, so they cannot be useless.

[@rytterl]

@@tricitymorte1 the problem is that Americans are so in their own bubble, so when they enter a "different world", they just hold on to their American ways. I have seen questions on reddit about whether they'd keep their "right to bear arms" while traveling to Europe. You see tourists talking to British police in horrible ways. And the police officers have this... Face. They know they're dealing with an insufferable person. That is how we see Americans. Toddlers having a hissyfit because they don't get their way. And still Americans wonder why we laugh at them. And if you tell them, they'll tell you about all the things they made and invented. 60% of the time it was invented somewhere else, and the other 40% of the time we wonder... Did you as a person invent it? No? Then shut up and go away.

[@Patrik6920]

Swede here, same here .. happends all the time apparently ...

[@heathermccall8015]

In Canada we do accept USD, with appropriate exchange rate. I was yelled at because he wanted his change in USD.

[@josefmaxwell2541]

I've grown up in Germany, born 1984. In 2013, I had American relatives ask me how it was to grow up in a bombed country.

[@RaoulKunz1]

Another '84 vintage German here - when I was studying in Frankfurt and the usual happened i.e. air dropped ordnance from The War had to be defused because it was found during a building project (happens all the time) an otherwise smart US student asked me bewildered why we had dropped so many bombs everywhere, if this was the result of some crazy Cold War training and if we where nuts to use live ammunition... ...Allied air raids dropped almost 16.000 tons of bombs onto Frankfurt... Best regards Raoul G. Kunz

[@m.m.4645]

Oh, how I know these kind of questions. I am German, born in 1960, and often enough get asked if Hitler is still around and where in Berlin he is living!!! And that mostly from people that are appr my age if not older!! History is only taught as American History, it seems.

[@tricitymorte1]

​@@m.m.4645we don't even teach American history very well. Our education system is falling apart, right along with the rest of the country

[@snorungar70]

Isnt Ukraine a part of germany....

[@erraldstyler]

since we´re still digging up allied bombs on a maybe monthly basis, that question isn´t too crazy.

[@carlamullenberg1029]

In the mid to late 1990's I was working for a company in Queensland. We were having discussions with a very large American firm who were trying to get into the Asian Market. We had been asked to submit a Tender for a large project that was to start in Kuala Lumpur. Due to the very big time differences between South East Queensland and San Diego we all had to get up at some ungodly hour to be in the office for a conference call. One of the guys from the US was the Vice President for the entire West Coast and he had been out to Australia a lot, he was fascinated about our wildlife thanks to Steve Irwin and I though he a very knowledgeable guy, that was until he asked me what type of animal was a Kuala Lumpur and where could they be found in Australia as he had never heard of them, now I love nothing better than take the piss out of anyone so I quickly replied that it was the female equivalent of a Koala Bear. My boss quickly pressed the mute button on the Polycom so our American friends did not hear the laughter and a few choice words being said in our conference room. His next question was, well how can you tell the difference between the Males and Females and I just told him that the females were the ones carrying the whinging baby on her back and the Males are the ones just sitting back on the Gum trees having a feed. My boss just ended the call because we were laughing so hard. I am not sure if my boss ever admitted to him that I was just pulling his leg or if somewhere in the West Coast of America there is an elderly gentleman going around telling anyone who would listen about the differences between our Koala and Kuala bears are. It still makes me smile when see a Kuala Lumpur with her baby on her back.

[@tricitymorte1]

To be a fly on the wall of that conference room... 😂

[@Seneida]

Hilarious😂

[@SilverionX]

Americans are very trusting, in some ways it's kind of endearing. But many only believe you as long as it aligns with their world views. I've told some stories that defy the laws of nature and common sense.

[@Chuckf66]

Queenslander here! We have wild koalas here, so next time I see one with carrying a baby, she'll be my first Kuala Lump-ur!

[@voornaamachternaam771]

I thought they are nephews of the Umpa Lumpa

[@hazeman4755]

I bet those who didn't know that Spain is in Europe are the same people who think that the most common languages in the USA are American and Mexican.

[@professornuke7562]

Tom Segura has a whole bit on that which is hilarious.

[@almiromeragic9341]

Yep, the same people who think that you only get the chocolate milk from the brown cows.

[@Patrik6920]

@@almiromeragic9341 hum .. Peach Yoghurt 🤔...

[@Jean-Denis_R_R_Loret]

What to expect from folks who can't even connect the dots between english and England ? 😂

[@rocklikeMedusa]

Just thinking there’s people that believe “american” and “mexican” are actual languages, cracks me up 😂😂😂

[@nikiTricoteuse]

Kiwi here. I still think about a tour of Europe l took about 40 years ago. Visits to most attractions were prepaid and all accommodation AND MEALS were included - something we were glad about as the amount of money we were allowed to take out of the country at that time was very small. Anyway, l was particularly struck by an American guy about my age (early to mid 20s) on the tour with us. The tour was about 30 days long and he had brought enough crackers and peanut butter with him to last the whole tour as he "liked American food and did not trust foreign food". Breakfast, lunch and dinner in more than a dozen countries, l watched this guy eat peanut butter and crackers, rather than the food that he had paid for as part of the all inclusive tour. Not a single mouthful of a single meal in a single country passed his lips. I'm still utterly bemused by it.

[@heatherhoward2513]

Loved this. I did a tour like this, our common meal at evening was veal schnitzels. I guess the cheapest solution? I must admit, I was startled by the first breakfast in Amsterdam, had not encountered ham etc for brekkie before.😅

[@nikiTricoteuse]

@@heatherhoward2513 Lol! Got fed schnitzel in EVERY country we went to on our tour too. Did my head in. Got to Italy and they fed us pasta as a first course and schnitzel as a second. They clearly thought l was mad when l asked for a second helping of pasta instead but, it was such a relief to not have to eat my 32nd schnitzel. 😁

[@heatherhoward2513]

😅

[@beetleb1801]

Aussie here. I was in California in 2008/2009. Once had a conversation with a young lady regarding the time difference between Australia and the USA. I explained that in Australia is a day (roughly) ahead of the US. She responded with a confused look. So, I explained further by saying "Yeah, we knew that Barack Obama was voted as President before you guys did!" Blew her mind...

[@marcromain64]

It was also pretty mean of you not to warn them in time about 9/11.

[@beetleb1801]

@@marcromain64 Yeah, I know right! But they wouldn't have listened anyway.

[@sergevereecke680]

@@beetleb1801 Cruel jokes you two , you must not joke with people oblivious to how the rest of the world works , you burst their bubble they might choke .😁

[@ffqm]

I told a girl from the US the time difference was due to the differences in the metric and the initial measuring system. It was an epiphany for her, she totally believed it. 😂

[@SilverionX]

Oh come on, you tell them about funny stuff that don't matter like your kids ride moose to school or have trained penguins to deliver mail for you, not real things that hurt their understanding of the world... uh, much.

[@LednacekZ]

I learned that you cant judge a whole country by one person, but when it got to 9 out of 10, I started judging.

[@rikardottosson1272]

The moon thing - I could understand if they were talking about like if the angle of aspect from the south hemisphere onto the moon made a difference

[@LednacekZ]

@@rikardottosson1272 the Moon is so far that angle between north and south is irrelevant.

[@John-wj6kg]

@@LednacekZ Except, it's upside-down, so it looks weird.

[@Patrik6920]

@@John-wj6kg ya, must be terrible driving upside down 😂

[@hassanalihusseini1717]

And on which one was Neil Armstrong? On the US-moon I guess, wasn't he?

[@101steel4]

I had an American customer in a shop in England, ask the price of something. When i said it was 10 pounds, she gave me a strange look and said "you mean dollars?"

[@fingolfyn]

I lived in Boston for a year and one day I met somebody and he was asking where I am from, I answered Austria, I know alot of people thinking about Australia, so I said Europe not Aussie. That dude couldn't understand what I am talking so I said that on Austrias Border is Germany, Italy, Switzerland and Hungary (I couldn't bother him with Liechtenstein or Czech etc). He mentioned that he never heard from these States as a part from the US.

[@trevormillar1576]

You're lucky they didn't ask if you had a pet kangaroo!

[@stanislavbandur7355]

I am sad, you missed my country ;) But I am happy owner of t-shirt saying "No kangaroos in Austria" I bought on Schwechat airport. Greetings from other bank of the river(s)

[@fingolfyn]

@@stanislavbandur7355 I traveled through Australia for 180 days and 18.000 km back in 2002.

[@janihaavisto79]

I mean I can't wrap my brain around the fact that Americans think Europe and rest of the WORLD isn't part of USA. Also they suck so badly on geographical things. As a Finnish guy I bet I know the American states better than your average American does if they have such poor knowledge on those.😊

[@annabergman1166]

They also confuse Sweden and Switzerland and for some reason they think we have polar bears 🤦‍♀

[@roblewis226]

I was following three young Americans into Edinburgh Castle. One of them was looking at a KZbin video on 'How not to act like a tourist.' They then stopped in the gateway to take a selfie, blocking the entrance for everyone behind them.

[@RedFloyd469]

Sounds to me like purposefull trolling

[@GulliNL]

To be fair, it's not just the Americans. We used to have a show in The Netherlands called 'De vakantieman' or 'The holiday man' and it was a show about holidays and how you could spend them and stuff. They had a segment where they would go abroad, find some Dutch tourists and ask them about the country they were visiting. Most famous would be that they would ask them to point out on a world map where they would think they were. Sure enough, people on the beach of some Spanish Mediterranean city pointed at the center of Russia. The center of Russia, you're standing on a beach, woman! Even if your geographic skills would be subpar, at least you would understand on a map which part is water and which part is land, right? Nope. Americans are famously bad at geography, but the rest of the world has some real characters too :)

[@Mandalousa]

thing about those shows is that most of them were scripted like 'groeten uit de rimboe' en 'echte meisjes in de jungle'. you cant fake real life though

[@tonys1636]

Was a good few years ago as a Coach Driver having collected a load of American Tourists from LHR, on the Motorway into London the tour company representative pointed out Windsor Castle, one passenger in a very loud Texan accent asked "Why was the castle built so close to the Airport?" as a plane passed over it, I had trouble not laughing out loud, as did the rep. Yes he was wearing the hat and boots, his wife told him not to be so stupid, that the castle was almost a thousand years old.

[@deepti1709]

Next time I am taking the motor way.. from the tube/train you cant see/or I dont know when to look for it!

[@roblewis226]

You can't see Windsor Castle from anywhere near Heathrow.

[@RedFloyd469]

Hey at least the wife knew what she was talking about.

[@tonys1636]

@@roblewis226 In the 60's and 70's it was in the distance on a clear day, obscured now by development.

[@alec984]

@@roblewis226 if you stay on the ground yeah, not if you're aboard any aircraft that is going to land or has just taken off from/ Heathrow airport. Windsor area, Slough and some of west part of London are descending corridors for aircraft which takeoff/land from/to Heathrow airport. In order to

[@fortheloveofmusic860]

I once, I'm Dutch and travelling around Ireland, was witness to this "conversation" in a pub in Westport, between a couple of American tourists and the very blunt barkeeper. Two very obvious American tourists walked in, sat down at the bar. Myself and a bunch of regulars were watching Premier League football. The barkeeper walked over to them, and the first thing one of the Americans said:"Hi, we're Irish to." With this thick accent. The only thing the barkeeper said was:"No, your not...", starred at them for a moment, turned around and went on watching the game. They stayed there for a moment, totally baffled, and left.

[@BoredSquirell]

Americans with Irish origins don't get just how unimpressive being Irish in Ireland is. Everyone else is too.

[@olgahein4384]

@@BoredSquirell Yeah, we get that in Germany once in a while too, especially the recent years when americans started to discover their dna heritage. They come here and are like 'I have german roots!' and look very proud and expectant, as if someone is supposed to get curious and excited about that. Like, there are over 80 million people in this country with german ancestry - namely, the germans.

[@McGhinch]

@@olgahein4384 Sometimes they say: "I'm German." I then say: "Well, then I don't need to bother speaking English." and switch to German.

[@anouk6644]

@@olgahein4384​​⁠Them saying ‘I have German roots’ is already a much better description than the usual ‘I am German’ 😁

[@olgahein4384]

@@anouk6644 I think they try 'I am german' once and get the exact same answer as McGhinch gave - people start talking to them in german. With dialect. On purpose.

[@MariekevanBuytene]

I did translations for an American organization some years ago. I had a hard time convincing them that we don't ask people's race on membership forms in the Netherlands. Cheers!

[@shadowfox009x]

German here. I once had to explain this to an American and that the German people would riot if anyone ever came up with that idea (again). We only ask for nationality and occasionally country of birth.

[@rogerwilco2]

Yeah, I find it very racist that this is often asked in the US.

[@Teuwufel]

​​@@rogerwilco2muricans never got rid of racism, they simply upgraded it.

[@WahidahCherazade]

@@rogerwilco2 Didn't knew they did! That's crazy! Why are they doing that?

[@mikdavies5027]

My late wife and I, together with friends, (we are English), were on holiday in Switzerland, and ran into an American scout-leader who, on meeting, us, said "At last, someone who speaks MY language"! I politely reminded him that he was speaking OUR language!

[@101steel4]

Badly 😂

[@mikdavies5027]

@@101steel4. I didn't wont to say that! 😀😀😀

[@rattywoof5259]

I once saw a language selection menu on an app - next to the UK flag it said "English". Next to the US flag it said "Simplified English".

[@mikdavies5027]

@@rattywoof5259. 😀😀😀

[@jibrilnoflugel1702]

that is stupid of you. Cause he wasnt meaning the language was his property, but it was his native language...

[@Elias_Avraham]

I was in in France recently and met a lovely American couple, me and my partner went for a meal with them and they told us they were taking the EuroTunnel to London the following morning, we had a small discussion then without irony the lady turned to me and my partner and asked if the train stops at any point in the tunnel so they could take photos of the fish. I laughed for about 20 minutes straight.

[@Herzschreiber]

WEll....... somehow I love her concept of what the Euro Tunnel may look like. Wouldn't it be fascinating if it lead through the sea and had walls of glass? I guess she was a SciFi fan :D

[@stanislavbandur7355]

@@Herzschreiber probably only fan of aquatic amusement parks

[@Herzschreiber]

@@stanislavbandur7355 🤣

[@AleksPizana]

That sounds exciting, except for Nessie lurking around.

[@raykeur1]

That's how I pictured it when I heard about it for the first time as a kid 😂

[@HSNPSA45]

I worked in a cafeteria in Germany 12 years ago. One day a group of US tourists came in, sat outside, drank coffee and ate cake. When I was supposed to collect the bill at the end, they wanted to pay in US dollars. I told them that some shops would definitely accept that, but we wouldn't. They said that they didn't have any euros and that I HAD to accept their US dollars. It was a long back and forth, at some point they threatened to just leave, saying that they didn't want to be treated like this even though they wanted to pay. In the end, our manager came and made it clear to them that we would call the police if this continued. One of them then walked to the nearest ATM and came back with euros 😅

[@JASFMXL]

And that's how you respond to these entitled and arrogant people! 👋

[@jauhoprinsessa]

it's insane how difficult it is for them to walk to the ATM and just pay.

[@feroxk.9266]

@@jauhoprinsessa its difficult for them to even process that the USD is not a worldwide payment method, let alone change money... they jsut dont care lol

[@ChristineSaveTheFish]

The audacity…😮

[@rogerwilco2]

Or just quadruple the price in dollars.

[@tonycasey3183]

In the 1990s, I worked in a holiday cattage rental company in England. We did online bookings, but mainly bookings over the phone - it was the 90s. The prices were in £GBP and A LOT of US customers said they couldn't pay in £ sterling because their credit cards were in $USD. It was not as easy to explain how international puchases work as you'd think. Also had one woman freak out because she wanted to visit Ireland but booked a flight to London because "Ireland doesn't have airports". She was also furious that she couldn't step on a ferry on The Thames in London and sail to Tipperary - an inland Town in Ireland - that is in totally the opposite direction from the way the Thames flows.

[@Dreyno]

Never occurred to me to rent a cat while on holiday 😐

[@tonycasey3183]

@@Dreyno It's the puff-fect rental

[@Dreyno]

@@tonycasey3183 I’m sold 👍

[@vitezslavnovak2077]

Yep, and that's why "It's a long way to Tipperary..."

[@Bramfly]

Education explains most of this

[@John-jw8rx]

Most Americans don't seem to know where English is from, let alone Spanish 😂

[@ohauss]

Well, I met one American who thought I was English because I spoke English rather fluently, albeit with accent that clearly wasn't American, and the notion of being fluent in a non-native language was inconceivable to him.

[@John-jw8rx]

@@ohaussThey don't even recognise an English accent. They think we're Australian 🤣

[@highks496]

They are extremely confused when white Spaniards speak Spanish, thinking they're doing some kind of weird cultural appropriation of Mestizo culture 😂

[@John-jw8rx]

@@highks496 They're the same with English people. They think they are speaking British 🤣

[@patsytyler2199]

@@ohaussimagine his confusion if he'd met me, an English-speaking South African! And white as well!

[@RCKennington]

I was sat next to an American tourist on a bus who was loudly complaining about her holiday. She complained that we had accents. I pointed out that she had an accent as well to which she declared "No I don't! " every one whithin earshot said "Yes you do!" She had also gone to Milford Sound which is one of the wettest places in the world and moaned that it was raining. I did not bother to point out if you go to a place with a high rainfall it will probably be raining.

[@101steel4]

It's a common thing for Americans to think they don't have accents 😂

[@stanislavbandur7355]

The wettest place in Ireland has annual rainfall of 1400mm. I was enjoying vacations in city with 2800mm of annual rainfall, where my brother lives. I cannot understand why people there have solar installations (collectors and PVs can be seen time to time in area with 233 rainy days in a year). one day I was (jokingly) wondering "WHoa, What is that fiery ball in the sky?"

[@m.charron]

@@stanislavbandur7355 solar panels don't require full sun to collect solar energy.

[@MrSqurk]

@@101steel4The number of times I have heard Americans say this is crazy.

[@Teuwufel]

Muricans just love to think they're the default center of the universe, huh 😂 Their country isn't even old. Ridiculous 😂

[@tacodegroot6442]

Many years ago, my sister was a flight attendant for Swiss Air. A elderly couple flying from Boston to Zurich asked my sister: Miss, we are traveling to Switzerland. Do you have electricity and running water there? My sister replied, No we don't, but we have an Airline... If you know nothing about Switzerland, at least you know Rolex is made there and not with hammers and chisel.

[@yippieyayey]

They must have been blown away by the quality of everything, after they arrived. 😂

[@PrototypeSpaceMonkey]

When my grandpa was still alive he would often tell the story of one time in the 1960's when an american tourist came to his farm to take pictures of him and his "authentic dutch farmhouse" He was snapping pictures with his brand new Minolta SR-7 when he stepped out into what he assumed was a well mowed grass road around my grandpa's farm. It was, however, a watering ditch covered in duckweed. After taking a shower at the farm, him and my grandpa spent the rest of the day dredging the canal for his camera, to no avail. He finally fished it out (by accident) days later, but the american was long gone by then, and no amount of rinsing and drying could get it working again. I still have the camera to this day.

[@jacvanloon4209]

Goodmorning. O'yeah the famous duckweed joke...😁 Have a nice day. 😎

[@rogerwilco2]

Leuk verhaal.

[@jca111]

I got into an argument on Twitter recently with an American who told me Cheddar 🧀 was American, and not English. I literally live in Cheddar.

[@olgahein4384]

Reminds me of an american student here in Germany (actually very nice and open minded guy, who got his world turned upside down while studying here, like, every other day). He was already shocked that Gouda is not american cheese (town in Netherlands and the origin), that 'German cake' wasn't german at all (it was invented by an american baker with the surname 'German' and he named the cake 'German's Cake' after himself, somehow they lost the 's' at one point) - but when he heard about the german city of 'Hamburg' he got teary eyed and whispered 'please, not the hamburgers'

[@mrHello420__]

​@@olgahein4384wow hahahahah

[@chrisrumble2665]

​@@olgahein4384 Did you tell him about Frankfurt 😅

[@Eastlomond]

If in the US, black people are called African American, then surely white people should be called European American. To my mind it is divisive to prefix the former.

[@tomscorpion6288]

@@olgahein4384 While this is really funny, imagine going to a foreign country and not knowing what its second largest city is. Like would any European travel to the U.S. never hearing about Los Angeles?

[@sirius4k]

It's all fun games until you remember that these people can vote.

[@101steel4]

And buy guns 😬

[@mareebrown-e3n]

@@101steel4 and breed

[@t.a.k.palfrey3882]

When my kids and I moved to the US for six years, my son - then 10 - was, of course of mixed ethnicity, my late wife being Luhya. He was indignant when his class teacher insisted on registering him as "African-American". "I am not American in any way," DJ insisted. "I am all African". Although white, I am third generation African born too. Do Americans think all Africans have to be hyphenated?

[@Dreyno]

South-African. South-Sudanese. Zam-bian. Zimbab-wean. Nig-erian. Ken-yan. Republic-of-the-Congolese. It’s a bit unwieldy but we can make it work 🤔

[@iangregory3719]

I had a friend from Gambia, West Africa, who said how much Africans disliked the term African American. He qualified that by stating that He was a "Black African", they were "Black Americans", and that being Black didn't automatically make them African. He spoke at least 3 west African languages, plus French and English , even though he left school at 15 with only basic qualifications.

[@robertfoulkes1832]

​@@nikiTricoteuse That was part of this video 😂😂

[@nikiTricoteuse]

@@robertfoulkes1832 Oh dear. Lol. Will delete my comment. Obviously l'm flakier than l thought.

[@wessexdruid7598]

Why won't people admit that Elon Musk is African-American?

[@M.J.-Diaz]

As a Spaniard, the amount of time people from the US told me that I'm either too white to be Hispanic or Hispanic, therefore I can't be white... My highlight was a woman from I think new York?! The conversation went somewhere like that, Her: Where are you from? Me: I'm Spanish. Her: You look neither Mexican nor Puerto Rican to me. Me: well... because I'm not Her: BUT YOU SAID SAID THAT! Me: I said I'm Spanish cos I'm from bloody Spain! Her: THEN WHY DO YOU SPEAK SPANISH???

[@fajaradi1223]

The problem is, most American doesn't watch football ⚽. Believe it or not, many south east asian children learns geography from FIFA world cup and UEFA champions League. Including me. But of course the down side is, if your country never qualified. We don't know you.

[@M.J.-Diaz]

@@fajaradi1223 true! I started to memorise country flags from playing FIFA or watching international football games 😂

[@highks496]

It would blow her mind if she knew how many white people actually live in South America. In countries she probably never heard of.

[@Varus78]

@@fajaradi1223 with spain winning the European Cup that shouldnt be a problem anymore right?

[@John-jw8rx]

@@fajaradi1223 You should learn geography at school.

[@walkir2662]

4:16 Unfortunately, the parks run out of Vegans very fast...

[@cherk9993]

I recently had an American tell me that they thought cars were illegal in New Zealand. They also assumed there wouldn't be many cars here, given the country's smaller size. They even asked, 'Since your country is on the opposite side of the earth, aren't your license plates upside down?' I corrected them, explaining that cars are legal once you obtain a warrant and registration. I also mentioned that we have a population of 5 million people, so the country isn't as small as they thought. And, I added, our license plates face upwards, just like the rest of the world.

[@Aotearas]

Naw, the license plates do face downward, but everyone else does too so it looks normal. At least for half the day, then the earth's rotation puts NZ on the upside and everyone has to hold on to the trees real quick or be flung off the planet like with those playground carousels. /s

[@maddyc2412]

​@@Aotearascan confirm, currently clinging onto a tree for my life right now

[@stanislavbandur7355]

I was working in Germany on container enclosed gas electricity generators shipped worldwide. When we were working on one for Australian customer, I was joking "Hey, guys, we are doing it wrong!" - "What? Why?" - "We need to build it upside down" - and then laughing for a minute.

[@chronic2023]

😂 License plates might not be upside down but the Moon is. I had never thought of that until my Uruguayan friend said something about it. 😅

[@christianc9894]

I have always wondered if the invention of the globe or world map had reached the USA.

[@vitezslavnovak2077]

They probably use the globe of the USA. 😉

[@tricitymorte1]

It has. Personally, I've studied maps since I was small child and found out there was a whole world outside of my town. I think what's happened is our education system has been corrupted and the funding just isn't provided anymore. I'm grateful every day for the education I received.

[@wessexdruid7598]

Given the number of flerfers...

[@almiromeragic9341]

That's where the flat earth idea comes to mind

[@jasminejones7389]

@@vitezslavnovak2077 a gold star for you Vitez

[@pakkinen]

I have another one while working in the US for a big multinational company. One coworker was going for the first time to Mexico and our boss told him to eat in good restaurants just in case so he wouldn´t get food poisoining (americans are also famous for getting sick everytime they travel abroad). He called next day sick, our boss asked where he went to eat and the guy said "McDonald´s"....I was working in the Miami office, where this guy was actually the only american there. We all laughed at his idea of Mcdonald´s being in the category of good restaurants.

[@John-jw8rx]

I saw a comment where an American said "It's ok to vacation in England as they speak OUR language"😂😂😂

[@vitezslavnovak2077]

Clever Americans! Not so clever American tourists tried to buy some tickets for Prague Metro (subway). They studied the ticket-selling machine; there were few flags on the display to choose the language to communicate with the machine. But ouch!, none of them was U.S.! Fortunately, a good soul told them to try the Union Jack, because the Britons use the language quite similar to American.

[@John-jw8rx]

@@vitezslavnovak2077 which still annoys me tbh. It should be the English flag.

[@vitezslavnovak2077]

@@John-jw8rx I understand, but who outside the UK knows English (and Scottish etc.) flag? Maybe except football fans...

[@John-jw8rx]

@@vitezslavnovak2077 I can't be accountable for peoples ignorance. If they don't know the flag of the most widely spoken language in the world, that's their problem. The language is called English, not UK.

[@scorake14]

@@John-jw8rx I think thats a bit hypocritical don't you think? Are you able to name every flag you see? Do you know every State flag in the US? Yes I think it is wrong for people not to know the Union Jack, especially not knowing that it would mean using the English language, however yes I could see maybe some people confusing or not being sure of/not knowing the Flags of England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and Ireland. I do but I loved geography as a kid, and I also am a bit of a football fan. Also before you make a claim or insult that I am American, I am not, I too inhabit a European country that was once part of the commonwealth

[@sammimm6678]

Canadian here. As a teenager I had a summer job in a gas station, in a town about a 30 minute drive north of the USA-Canada border. Had some Americans pull in for gas, their first stop in Canada, and they wanted to know where were the eskimos, igloos and polar bears… 🙄

[@RedFloyd469]

I hope you answered "just a liiiiiitle bit further north, you're almost there, just keep following the road."

[@bethannconnors2242]

I had some Americans in July at our ice cream booth ask where they could go sking. I realized they meant in the snow when I seen the skis on top of their car. I live in the "Caribbean of Canda" almost as far south in Canada as you can go. I laughed and said turn around and head north and keep on driving for about a week. Good luck!

[@Brauiz90]

I have a funny memory. I live in Salzburg, Austria and here we have some Irish pubs often visited by US tourists. Once I had a family next to me and their one son told me "I love it here in Europe - in the US I'm old enough to drive cars or have guns but I'm not old enough to drink a beer" (he was 20 and he had his 21st birthday the next day)

[@ohauss]

An acquaintance of mine (German) spent a high school year in the US. They were teasing him that he wasn't allowed to drive cars at home. He pointed out that he was, however, allowed to drink beer. That's when they shut up

[@Giggione85]

I'm starting to think that all this is not just the result of poor education, but above all there is a latent underlying racism and chauvinism in all Americans.

[@digidol52]

Sadly true. Racism is what Trump has been all about.

[@elmurcis1]

Not gonna lie - American government propaganda works amazing (even Soviets would be proud of it!) to create large amount of "ignorant and arrogant people that will divide themselves naturally (either race, party or some other reasons) to minimize chance of serious "uprising"

[@freebirds67]

Not all americans. Umm are you forgetting Ian is American?

[@syllycatface]

​@@freebirds67underlying racism doesn't mean everyone is racist. It's just more likely and more socially acceptable to a degree.

[@vitezslavnovak2077]

​@@freebirds67 I'm not 100%sure, but I think Ian has some Czech blood. It could be a really good antidote to ignorance

[@tonibaker3823]

there is a youtuber who while reacting to a video about the uk asked if the native british were treated well and did they live on reservations ,this was last week

[@sweetbing9333]

By now, yes.

[@wessexdruid7598]

That would be Cornwall...

[@lordprotector3367]

Some might say it won't be long...

[@pp38pp]

The native British were exterminated between the 6th and 10th centuries. The few survivors live in Wales and Cornwall.... 😁

[@lordprotector3367]

@@pp38pp Also Brittany.

[@Justforvisit]

German native here and while I do not live in Cologne I visit it from time to time, once at the Cologne Dome I overheard a conversation in english that went like: "Woah, what an amazing church, how do they manage to put that up so fast every summer?" Like....do they really believe we build that thing each summer from top to bottom just to have something nice for the tourists?! 😅

[@Herzschreiber]

Maybe one should have explained to them, that the original Kölner Dom took 600 years to be completed, but was bombed away and this one here is just a hologram! :)

[@stanislavbandur7355]

@@Herzschreiber I met a few US citizens and I was happy that they were normal educated people traveling around the world and worked (mostly English teachers teaching in my city). We always have funny Friday nights, but sometimes when too much beer was in, they started that hyping of USA. I am from small very young city/town and (passively aggressively) started to explain to them "You know, this city is firstly mentioned in 1302, you know. It is like 196years before we discovered America, you know? And we got city rights in 1312, you know? That is 186 years before America was discovered, you know?" --- reply "Oh so interesting history" (Never experienced that it was not blink in their heads and they always went into normal mode)

[@pittarak1]

Australian here: during the 80s, my wife and I were in Hawaii and a lovely (US) American couple from one of the southern states we got talking to, remarked that we spoke 'good American' (not English??). They thought in Australia, we speak French!

[@vitezslavnovak2077]

You don't speak Polish? I've found Mt. Kosciuszko on the map... 🤔

[@chrisrumble2665]

Well, if LaPerouse had arrived one day earlier...

[@LadyHeathersLair]

You missed commenting on the Norway one. I can’t imagine being asked why we had “white people working in the cafeteria “. Geezuz.

[@highks496]

The only correct answer to this question is: because we're a country and not a Netflix movie!

[@The_Real_Mr_Al]

@@highks496 As a Scandinavian myself, I would have thought to myself "Gee, it's almost like we're more white than all of the US combined, without being obsessed about it"! 😅

[@LynxLord1991]

Thats funny cuz bears and wolves went from Euro-Asia to the Americas during the ice age, it even triggered the extinction of the native predators that couldn't keep up

[@papalaz4444244]

I have seen Texans who think Texas is "So big!" that it is bigger than the whole of Europe. Texas is about 10% larger in area than France and smaller than Ukraine.

[@aussiebattler7789]

Texas is about half the size of the Northern territory in Australia with a population of less than 250,000, and not quite 2 million square kilometers less than western Australia ( 2.5 million square killometers v 676000 ) and less tha half the size of Alaska

[@baktun14]

Texas (695k sq.km) is 15% larger than Ukraine (603k) and 26% larger than metropolitan France (551k). Only if you take all the France's territories into account (643k), Texas is 8% larger.

[@GiveMeSpaceTravel-bg8td]

​@aussiebattler7789 I think if Texas was state of Australia it would be the third smallest. I seem to recall that New South Wales is distinctly bigger than Texas.

[@thevocalcrone]

@@GiveMeSpaceTravel-bg8td as an australian and not using google.. i always thought NSW was one of our smaller states to be honest. We have QLD, NT, SA and WA that are much bigger.

[@GiveMeSpaceTravel-bg8td]

@thevocalcrone NSW is one of the 'smaller' states but as you say that is relative. If it was placed in the USA it would be one of the biggest states.

[@AM1999]

I’m American and was touring the Mayan Ruins. You had to leave your camera with an official to go inside the ruin. They were acting like this person was going to steal their camera. As I’m giving my 800 dollars camera to the guy. They looking at me saying you understand, right. I looked at them and said they were an embarrassment.

[@tonytutone2003]

“If you weren’t laughing you would cry.” I am so concerned that you guys in the US have so much power on the international stage. Education is so woeful and the levels of confidence are so large. That is not a great combination. Not since the last days of the Roman Empire has there been this situation. I now live in Australia but grew up in central London. Some of the conversations I overheard on the tube between American tourists were truly amazing. And living here I used to run a restaurant on the Great Ocean Road. There are special signs reminding US travellers to drive on the other side of the road. This is because there have been so many accidents!! WOW😂

[@jennymckinnon9528]

in Rome, early/mid 80’s, overheard an American dad telling his kids that the Colosseum was probably over 100 years old!

[@lukascph]

It probably is! 😆

[@stanislavbandur7355]

technically he was probably right, as far as I know 1000s are over 100

[@pp38pp]

@@stanislavbandur7355 He was VERY right. Because if it is PROBABLE that 1000 years is more than 100, it is MUCH MORE PROBABLE that 1954 years are! 😉

[@RedFloyd469]

Technically true. Maybe the dad was just a radical skeptic philosopher and would never admit to having accurate, deductive knowledge about anything empirical. Or maybe he was truly that moronic.

[@ruggerorossi551]

😂😂😂😂 lol

[@MichaelDobran-is7pr]

In 1982 I was working in a company that provided goods to visiting ships. I was 18 at the time and my boss tasks me with the job of showing 3 U.S Navy officers around Melbourne. One of them asked me about hunting , what do you hunt and where? I explained the best I could. Then he asked " do you hunt bears?" I was confused and asked him what he meant he replied" you know, bears , koala bears " after I had explained what a koala was he said "Oh ,I thought they were big things like grizzlies." From Mick.D in Australia.

[@MetalheadAndNerd]

So you don't hunt giant spiders?

[@MichaelDobran-is7pr]

@@MetalheadAndNerd not since the Government banned personal ownership of bazookas and R.P.Gs

[@jimspink2922]

You could have told them about the Drop Bears. I was in the Reserves back in the 80s and during one of our full time exercises we had some American Marines with us and we were showing them our ration packs as they would be using our ration packs as well and there was a tube of vegemite in the pack. One of the Marines tasted and said it tasted like s..t. We explained to them that it was a Drop Bear repelent and that you squeezed some vegemite out of the tube and put it behind your ears and explained how vicious thses creatures could be. All the time trying to keep a straight face.

[@davediesel90]

I speak french spanish and irish and was informed that i was arrogant for being multilingual 😂😂😂😂😂 by am American

[@zymelin21]

don't try to speak anything but english in th south!! They will think you are speaking arabic, and TSA will give you the whole trratment!!

[@marilynnirkkola3483]

Right now the republicans in the US denigrate anyone one with higher education….they like their supporters dumb…that's how Trump got elected. They’ve been dumbing down the US for the last 4 years.

[@lukassimontm3546]

😂 how dare you??

[@seijika46]

It would save a lot of grief if people had to sit a basic exam to get a passport.

[@ruthgiles8926]

And to vote.

[@888PsyMike888]

Or to become president.

[@LoveCats9220]

And watch a video on how not to behave

[@MrTonyHeath]

Or the vote.

[@hypsyzygy506]

Or to leave school.

[@John-jw8rx]

Saw a great one on Facebook. A reel involving a wad of money. An American woman wrote "That's not dollars, we use dollars in America". When people questioned it, she thought everyone using Facebook was American 😂

[@zakbook15]

americans at a deli counter. oh look they have cheddar here. this was in somerset they were literally a 20 minute drive from cheddar the place that invented it

[@RedFloyd469]

I don't think that's AS bad. It's not VERY common knowledge that "cheddar" refers to a place, whereas it IS common knowledge that "champagne" refers to the region that specific sparkling wine variant is made. It's also not a requirement to know the exact whereabouts of a random town you weren't planning on visiting. A 20 minute drive, in a lot of countries, would also not exactly be "around the corner", that's a good 20-30 kilometers away for sure. If they were being confrontational and angry about that little factoid, then I would understand mocking the americans, but honestly, that would have happened to most people who are just not aware of cheddar's existence as a place. I think it's okay, for anybody, to be ignorant of minor, unimportant details like that, especially the stuff that isn't part of any realistic curriculum. Though I have to admit, my native country doesn't really have cheddar cheese as much as americans tend to consume. Most of our cheeses are dutch, belgian or french-made. So maybe I AM underestimating the american education system's capacity to not state the origin of popular brands of house-hold products.

[@LiveMusic1st]

@@RedFloyd469pedant😳

[@RasMosi]

@@RedFloyd469 Actually most people outside USA is very aware of where cheddar comes from, this has nothing to do with educational system, more about culture and the pursuit of knowledge pertaining to other cultures than your own. So instead of giving a snotty, arrogant comment, maybe try to educate yourself. For an American that is used to drive everywhere, 12 - 18 miles is nothing, just don't ...

[@Teuwufel]

​@@RedFloyd469there is no way you're that dumb 😂

[@module79l28]

9:12 - I think that the person who didn't agree that Egypt was in Africa is in the Nile, Ian. See what I did here? 😉😆

[@nikiTricoteuse]

Lol. Well done.

[@SilverionX]

Boo, take your like and leave. :P

[@Chuckf66]

* groans in Dad Joke *

[@lordprotector3367]

To be fair, Egypt is right next to S Arabia.

[@bjorreb7487]

Some years ago I heard an american dad tell his son that Wells Fargo was nthe oldest company in the world. I didn' say anything. He was here in Sweden Europe. The oldest company here is 800 years old and in south Europe you have even older companies. But for the oldest in the world you have to visit Japan. There are some est around 790 AD. More than 1300 years old. They are hotels with restaurant. They started to help traveling samurai. I read about one of them and it was still on the same address and had the same family as owner to this day. Columbus stranded in America 1492 a little more that 500 years ago. He didn't even find the main land he found an island.

[@bettychatfield2544]

Wells Fargo is not even the oldest company in North America.... the Canadian Hudson Bay Company still operating was founded as a fur trading company in 1670

[@alumycrick2911]

A popular English language bumper sticker in Austria reads: _There are _*_NO KANGAROOS_*_ in Austria._ Rest assured that information is not for the benefit of tourists from Australia.

[@jimspink2922]

Australian here My wife and I were in Vienna on a tour and we walked passed a shop that had a T Shirt in the widnow which showed the yellow diamond traffic sign with a Kangaroo on it and says NO KANGAROOS IN AUSTRIA. My first reaction was WTF then burst out laughing. Went into the shop and brought one.

[@Anon-mk4ms]

I was on the tube and two American guys were moaning about the lack of guitar stores like guitar centre in the UK, I told them that if they got off at the next stop they could go to Denmark Street and shop for guitars in the same shops as The Beatles, The Rolling stones and Led Zeppelin did.

[@davidfowler4741]

I was at the roman baths in Bath reading an information board about the building that explained that the windows were probably glazed. A rather large American next to me turned to his wife and exclaimed " Glass ! In Roman times ! I DON'T THINK SO ! "

[@Teverell]

There's Roman glass in the museum part of the Roman baths in Bath.

[@karlgrylls2406]

At least he seemed to know about where the romans belong to the timeline

[@chronic2023]

😂 I'll bet he doesn't know about bricks during Roman times, either, or metal.

[@Paradise-on-Earth]

Very nice American ladies stepped out of the cruise-ship with me in Venice (when the harbor was still open to big ships) and wondered where they could catch the "hop-on-hop-off-bus to see the city". When I explained that this city can only be explored by boat or by foot, they refused to believe it. I walked away.

[@RedFloyd469]

How can somebody plan to visit Venice as a major tourist trap, without also understanding WHY venice is a major tourist trap? That is some next-level ignorance right there.

[@kizi86]

ive almost had the police called on me, when i was in america, trying to buy a pack of cigarettes, showed the lady my passport, as I am from Iceland, and she thought i had a fake passport, because noone from iceland would visit her city..

[@MagdalenaBozyk]

wait, what? At first I thought they would say that you can't be from a fake country.

[@chronic2023]

😂 About buying cigarettes, a cashier refused to sell my 70-year-old brother a cigar because he didn't have an ID on him, to prove his age, of course. I swear, some of my fellow Americans really are idiots.

[@matteonemeth1040]

Enjoy your content from Italy man, it's cool seeing your passion and reaction. I tell you one i got personally, i am in sales for years and had an american guest for a week here in Milano, Italy. I told me if he needed any help to just ask and i will be happy to help but he told he wanted to enjoy the city alone. After two days he asked how to find a real italian restaurant (we have 9000 restaurant in Milan), i was puzzled then i understood he was searching for a sign that states "ITALIAN RESTAURANT", in Italy.....

[@MagdalenaBozyk]

Poor guy.

[@HenryLoenwind]

Funny. In Germany he would have been on the right track. With our attitude of only willing to spend money on restaurants when the food is something special, finding a restaurant that offers Deutsche Küche (German Cuisine) is really hard and they will usually have a sign saying so...

[@MrRofl131]

When I was in Milan, I also searched for a legit Italian restaurant. My search terms were, they do NOT serve pizza with pineapple. Pineapple pizza`s are American and I wanted to tast a real Italian pizza. With this metric I found lots and lots of great Italian restaurants with the best food I could wish for.

[@seanbarker4610]

I heard a group of U.S tourists saying that the Welsh flag was definitely from the Game of Thrones.

[@bodybalanceU2]

did they want to go to wales to see the dragons flying around

[@koppadasao]

1:55 The tsunami *did* hit Denmark. Just because the tsunami wave that hit Denmark was 15 cm high, doesn't mean it didn't hit...

[@Dreyno]

15cm could cover 90% of Denmark in fairness. It’s as flat as a very flat thing.

[@clarissagafoor5222]

​@@Dreyno😂😅

[@koppadasao]

@@Dreyno It's not that flat, though. The waves in Skagerrak can easily rise to a couple of meter, and it isn't as Denmark is flooded every time there's a storm

[@Dreyno]

@@koppadasao Jokes. They’re not for everyone, are they? 😐

[@koppadasao]

@@Dreyno You shouldn't joke about geography. Americans are not exactly known for their geography knowledge, nor for their knowledge of real units...

[@pakkinen]

13:40 I was also an exchange student from Spain in Baltimore and this is true. I was asked by a classmate "why Mexico is also called Spain? they also showed me a microwave working in a party like if it was a magic trick hahaha I didn´t tell them it was crappy compared to the one I had back home in Madrid.

[@joserobles8186]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@xrand0mx]

So going back a few years (pre lord of the rings), my parents were in Hawaii and they got chatting to some people from mainland USA. when the couple discovered where my parents were from (New Zealand), they told them they were planning a trip here, but the were wondering if they would need to take thier own generator when visiting the south island....

[@dieSterbendeGiraffe]

Lol, the first time I ever saw bears in the wild was actually in Croatia! But they must have been imported by very important Americans 😂

[@j.vanderson6239]

I spoke to an American tourist who was very disappointed that we didn’t all live in windmills in The Netherlands

[@Varus78]

windmills are cool, you should think about that! :D

[@stanislavbandur7355]

@@Varus78 but you know, how tech is developped nowadays windmills are too small for a living - we call them electric pumps nowadays (OK some of them were used for milling)

[@chronic2023]

😂 My mom had a thing about Dutch windmills. Americans have this quaint view of Europe, as if everyone lives like they did hundreds of years ago.

[@maireweber]

The haggis one reminded me of a joke: Scots invented the condom, made from sheep intestines. The English improved upon the concept by removing the sheep 😝

[@frightday13dragon94]

I thought that was the Welsh.

[@SalisburyKarateClub]

we usually use that joke about NZ

[@nikiTricoteuse]

Oh? So that's where New Zealand got the idea.

[@MrTonyHeath]

Don't you mean Welsh?

[@jasminejones7389]

@@MrTonyHeath depends on who's telling the joke.

[@Oikolukuhirvi]

My mother was in NYC in the 90's, a local asked her where she's from. She told them "Finland" and the local asked "where's that", she responded "It's in Europe" and got a high-pitched question asked "Texas?"

[@RedFloyd469]

That's another level of ignorant right there

[@dyslexicLLM]

You're always such a good sport about these "mock the american" videos. You single-handedly restore all the image damage done by these americans. Bravo!

[@MARGRETFRIEDRICH-e1u]

I am Canadian .We have a "support our troups" sticker on our bumper. While in the US and stuck in traffic, the man in the car behind us knocked on our window and said he did not know we had an army 😮

[@bettychatfield2544]

We were driving in the US and someone told us it is illegal to have a license plate with a made up place on it.... We are from Saskatchewan... and listening to most Americans trying to pronounce it is hilarious

[@antonnurwald5700]

To be honest i'm not so sure either.

[@RedFloyd469]

To be honest that sounds like the american was just trying to roast canada

[@gazoontight]

That guy did not celebrate Independence Day, he celebrates the Fourth of July. A lot of people in the USA have no idea what the holiday is about. There are plenty of videos that show people totally clueless.

[@ajvanmarle]

3:00 There are literally speedlimit signs everywhere in Germany, and they look exactly the same as in the US.

[@rogerwilco2]

No they don't. Speed limit signs in the US say "SPEED LIMIT XX" they are nothing like speed limit signs in the rest of the world. In the US they write most traffic signs instead of using clear, easy to recognize, widely used and recognized symbols and designs.

[@erraldstyler]

Met a US couple who moved here recently. They already spoke some German, but not enough for a normal conversation. So i switched to English. They couldn´t wrap their head around it.

[@RedFloyd469]

Hey, at least they were AWARE that other languages exist outside of American English. I guess they just don't know just how popular english is in Europe.

[@aussiebattler7789]

The US writes and speaks ther dates in the wrong order supposedly to demonstrate their inderpendance from the British except for the date that they celabrate that inderpendance, 4th of July

[@101steel4]

And Still uses their units and language (sort of).

[@dianneraphael8248]

Yes that gives me the tom tits.

[@wessexdruid7598]

@@101steel4 But they don't. They use 'customary units', NOT Imperial - their gallons, tons and even inches are different.

[@MrTonyHeath]

They even get that wrong.

[@stanislavbandur7355]

Of course they did. They needed to finish that day to be independent. They woke up next morning into super free day of July 5th.

[@thehellyousay]

in canada, american tourists telling us how grateful we should be that they exist is pretty friggin' common.

[@RedFloyd469]

Maybe they're lowkey implying they want the US to invade canada.

[@AussiePom]

A very famous river flows through Egypt but some Americans don't believe it because they're in DENILE.

[@suicidalbanananana]

Okay so the one "is that a different moon" question gets a pass from me, that is clearly somebody that hasn't had decent education, but they ARE actually looking around and trying to make sense of things that puzzle them, so _props for trying_ i'd say. Everything else is just 🤦‍♂ facepalm combo-breaker! 🤣

[@rivenoak]

the moon looks different for real, so the question was valid. South Africa is on southern hemisphere obviously and the moon looks "upside down" for texans.

[@andymccracken4046]

@@rivenoak Yes, the moon looks upside down in Australia too.

[@JoriDiculous]

Here they ask in full seriousness: "When do the midnight sun come up?"

[@rivenoak]

@@JoriDiculous oooof :(

[@MagdalenaBozyk]

@@JoriDiculous Wait, what? Do they expect a 2nd sun?

[@MagdalenaBozyk]

To be fair about The Tsunami. A lot of Scandinavians (at least a lot of Swedes) were on vacation in and around Thailand at that time. Many Swedes lost their family and friends. This was as devastating, if not more devastating, to the country as sinking of Estonia was. In Sweden, if you say "The Tsunami", every one knows which one you are talking about.

[@aserta]

1:18 i did once, and blew that person's mind that the English version is not only translated from Aramaic, Hebrew, and Koine Greek - but it was very likely passed through a German filter, hence all the weird translation "errors" (i say errors in "", because some were purposefully changed, some, without the best intent).

[@stanislavbandur7355]

it is everywhere - like in English it is "Thou shall not murder" and in our translation it is "you shall not kill" (for sure not all versions mentioned), or "Thou shall not use God's name in false vein" is our "You shall not use Go's name causally" (or "in vain" with false omitted)

[@dirkspatz3692]

@@stanislavbandur7355 OR the problem with the old greek word for "rip" that at the time the old testament where translated into greek (the base of modern translations) mostly means "half". Maybe intentional or by error they translated "God created Eva from half of Adam" as "God created Eva from a rip of Adam" Intentional maybe because "half" would mean woman are the same "Value" than men but with rip they could assume "Only made from a useless part of a man therefore not worth anything".

[@jimspink2922]

You can also add some Dutch and French to that as well.

[@Synthicate-q7e]

I had american girl tell me that she's going to paris at spring time and I told yeah France is quite nice at this time of year. She corrected me that she's going to paris not france.

[@QuentinPlant]

Perhaps she meant Paris, Texas?

[@Synthicate-q7e]

@@QuentinPlant Nah she was going on about Eiffel tower so it was defenetly Paris, France.

[@Yggdrasil42]

I'm Dutch. When I was an exchange student in the US someone asked me if we had a phone system and electricity in The Netherlands.

[@Pallo87]

A friend of mine was in Tanzania and she met an american police officer on vacation. He asked "Where are you from?" She replied "Sweden" He replied "Oh! so you speak european like the rest of europe?"

[@101steel4]

I've been asked why English people don't speak a European language.

[@ilaril]

Thank god the Americans I've met in Finland have been military. They know how to act and where they actually are 😂 plus the USMC parties at the consulate were great!

[@TheXshot]

8:14 especially considering that America / USA doesn't have an official language.

[@TZB77]

Sure they do, it's called English (simplified)

[@patriziamares6757]

​@@TZB77no they don't actually

[@olgahein4384]

@@TZB77 The USA really don't have an official language at all. English is the 'common' language that was chosen by poll ages ago (barely outdid German, btw), but not an official language that everyone has to stick to in government and official business.

[@TZB77]

@@olgahein4384 Apparently the joke went over everyone's head....when choosing a language in a game or program, you used to have two choices...English (with the UK flag) and 'simplified' English (with the US flag)...that's what I was going for....I know the history well enough ;-)

[@olgahein4384]

@@TZB77 Yepp, you're right, that joke totally went past me by miles. I'm never changing languages in games or programs, cause they are usually pre-set to german or english and both are the same for me. Pity though, cause it is actually funny.

[@patriciahernandez4695]

Now I can't get the image of boats full of bears traveling to Europe from America out of my mind... XD

[@yorkaturr]

I was in primary school in Finland in the 80s and even back then the teachers were telling us jokes about how ignorant Americans are about geography.

[@alexpervanoglu7420]

I live in Spain. We have bears, wolves and lynx. None of them imported.

[@MrTonyHeath]

Perhaps you have not been there long enough.

[@alexpervanoglu7420]

@@MrTonyHeath ?

[@angelcabeza6464]

@@alexpervanoglu7420 they do have imported wolves and bears from America since the Europeans killed them off before

[@alexpervanoglu7420]

@@angelcabeza6464 What a load of nonsense. Not even the same species as those in North America.

[@joserobles8186]

​@@angelcabeza6464 😂😂😂😂😂

[@mathewrussell1533]

The black one cracked me up. Heard that a few times especially when Introducing them to my black friends. The other one is them getting huffy over getting dates wrong because apparently the whole world writes the date backwards

[@jacobzimmermann59]

I've been told an allegedly true story, not about Americans but rather funny. Remember those corduroy pants that were popular decades ago: for whatever reason, Czechs always called them "Manchester pants". The person who told me this story attended some scientific conference in (then) communist Czechoslovakia, with attendees from all over Europe. One evening there was a social function with some apparently specific dress code. He and another attendee wanted to go there. That other guy was wearing those pants, and because of that, the man at the door didn't want to let him in (because dress code). He tried to explain it but unfortunately didn't really speak English, so he could only say "sorry, no Manchester". The corduroy pants guy looked perplexed at his colleague and said " What's his problem? And how on Earth did he know that I'm from Manchester? "

[@QuentinPlant]

Corduroy used to be called "Manchester" in several parts of Europe because it was first produced there.

[@jacobzimmermann59]

@@QuentinPlant Interesting, I didn't know that.

[@IXxJordan]

There was an american tourist that reviews a mountain here saying that it was too big and because it wasnt completely paved it was an issue. They also complained that we put a resort / stop at the top for food and toilets etc for when you do manage to get to the top, which I guess is the only true complaint as I guess it can take away from the authentic mountain climbing experience

[@JoriDiculous]

You can spot the American(s) in miles among the groups of tourist flowing out the what ever transport they come with. And if ever in doubt, what until they start asking and complain. Here in Norway we have American tourist inn all seriousness ask "when do the midnight sun come up" even when in Oslo.😂 (i dont even have to mention all the stupid question about reindeer, polar beers(obviously it's supposed to be BEAR, but do google mack polar beer) etc)

[@Zyndstoff]

"Polar beers" ... that's the greatest typo I've ever seen!

[@JoriDiculous]

@@Zyndstoff makes it even funnier when you know it is an actual beer. (and bear) 😂 (goggle it: Mack Polar Beer)

[@SouthpawDavey]

A mate of mine in Scotland told me some Americans asked her what time the loch ness monster came out so they didnt miss it.

[@lukascph]

Every first and last Thursday of a month, but you have to be there at 14:16 sharp! 😉

[@stanislavbandur7355]

@@lukascph so, they will miss it for sure. Poor US citizens cannot afford more than 12 hours.

[@Teverell]

@@lukascph You have to bring a freshly-caught haggis with you, too.

[@Kolbjornelenano]

5:33 I'm going to give that woman the benefit of doubt and asume that she was referring to the fact that the moon looks different on the southern hemisphere

[@norrinradd2364]

11:16 Latin America is not only South America, but also includes parts of North America (Mexico, St. Pierre and Miquelon), the Caribbean, Central America and South America. In general, Latin America separates the English-speaking countries (Canada and USA) from the mostly Spanish/Portuguese (+ some French, Dutch and English-speaking) countries. Or, according to the definition of the USA, all countries south of the USA/Mexico border. 12:55 fun fact, just Nike is from the US. AC/DC is from Australia and the Beatles are British.

[@rennratteb.8614]

and also NIKE is a greek goddess

[@norrinradd2364]

@@rennratteb.8614 yeah, but this is far over the head of the most US Americans because there is no Kardashian with this name.

[@sergevereecke680]

@@norrinradd2364 😱🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@jattikuukunen]

Does Anglo-America have a president?

[@markaitcheson3212]

I spoke to an African American and she said Africa should be sued because Nigeria was full of conmen, I said that made no sense and she said its the same as New York is a city in the USA so could be held responsible,when I told her that it wasn't the same because Nigeria is a country and Africa is a continent and there is no continent leader and even if there was a continent isn't responsible for the actions of a country in it she got really mad,I gave up,how on earth do they call themselves AFRICAN Americans and yet have no clue what Africa even is?

[@karstenbursak8083]

2:40 There is literally „Autobahn-tourism“ in Germany … people flying in just to drive 250+km/h on the Autobahn … there are even countless car rentals that rent out fast sports cars, like Porsche, Ferrari or Lamborghini just for this purpose

[@stefanbrackeva3867]

Shit, that sounds incredible dangerous.

[@jattikuukunen]

Can't they just go to a race track?

[@keinbenutztername]

It is. German here with experience going fast...

[@dinastanford7779]

When you are taught to pass exams of multiple choice questions.

[@101steel4]

Multiple guess

[@olgahein4384]

'Egypt is right on top of Africa, a very famous river flows through there' Yeah, the longest river of Africa.

[@rennratteb.8614]

longest river of the hole world, 6650km - 4132 miles

[@olgahein4384]

@@rennratteb.8614 Didn't want to rub it in THAT much 😅

[@sergevereecke680]

I am in the Nile !! 😁😁

[@jenniferharrison8915]

D Nile! 😂

[@jeffree9015]

These people vote.

[@andymccracken4046]

Probably can guess who they would vote for.

[@ruggerorossi551]

The worst part is they can have children.

[@rogerwilco2]

It is scary.

[@kjk8941]

I live in an area in southern Germany where many people come on vacation. Also US Americans. I've experienced a few things. People who just sit on our terrace or walk around in our garden, for example, and ask very, very stupid questions. One American was almost angry that we German women don't all wear dirndls all the time. Because: That's not authentic! Another one complained that everything is always in German. And yet another was surprised that we have fridges in Germany. Oh, and I was asked several times what I thought about Hitler or whether I (34!) ever met him...

[@chronic2023]

I recently saw some animated KZbin video comparing Americans and Europeans. It was weird because the Americans had normal modern clothes but the Europeans were wearing lederhosen and drindls. 😅 So stupid.

[@Twist-The-Friendly-Hunter]

My mate went to Plymouth to visit HMS victory. This is a ship of the line, the last of her kind, commanded by admiral Nelson... He was asked why they kept the ship in drydock instead of just scrapping it because its not seaworthy anymore. My mate said something along the lines of "this ship is older than your entire country, helped defeat our enemies and never lost a battle. She's our history you donkey"